US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on May 20 for "Adaptive bias circuits and methods for CMOS millimeter-wave power amplifiers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,798, issued on May 20, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Adaptive bias circuits and methods for CMOS millimeter-wave power amplifiers" was invented by Peter M. Asbeck (Del Mar, Calif.), Sravya Alluri (San Diego), Narek Rostomyan (La Jolla, Calif.) and Seyed Bagher Rabet (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Adaptive bias networks include small transistors connected to adjust gate bias voltage of one or more transistors of an amplifier or amplifier stage, or in a main or auxiliary path of a compound amplifier such as a Doherty amplifier. The small transistors are sized to avoid ...